I do this with pretty much every batch of beer I brew, unless I don't have any bottles available. There are a couple ways you can approach it.... Once your beer is done add the appropriate amount of priming sugar simple syrup to your bottling bucket and then rack the beer on top of it. Then fill the amount of bottles you want and transfer the rest to a keg and seal it and purge it and let it carbonate naturally for a week or 2. After that put it in your kegerator at 10 psi and server. Now this method saves a little CO2 in the process but takes longer.

If you don't use a bottling bucket or want your kegged beer ready to drink sooner once your beer is done... Fill the amount of bottles you want and prime each of them with appropriate amount of priming sugar. Transfer the rest to a keg and put it under 25-30lbs of pressure. This is the method I usually use because the beer is carbonated in 3-4 days and not 1-2 weeks

I bottle a 12 pack of every batch. I think I figured it to 1/4 tablespoon per bottle. BUT the best thing to do is buy the coopers carbonation drops. It is one drop per 12 oz bottle. 2 per 22 oz bottle etc... I don;'t know about champagne bottles. Just do the conversion of 1 drop per 12 ounces of beer.

So I bottle 12 with the carbonation drops then I put the rest in the keg.

Or you can prime the whole thing and naturally carbonated the keg like mentioned, or prime the whole thing and immediately put the keg in the kegorator and chill it to drop the yeast out of suspension and the froce carb. That little bit of priming sugar should not really add a whole lot of sweetness to the beer.

Another way to do it would be to mix the corn sugar into 100ml of boiled water. Cool it, then add about 2ml (using a syringe or dropper of some sort) of that mixture to each bottle. That computes out to about 50 bottles. Which is what I usually get out of 5 gallons of beer. It is not exact, but will get you in the ballpark.

When I first started brewing my buddy kegged in the mini kegs and I was bottling. We were both engineers so we ended up with 2 pages of calculations to get the priming ratio right for the two different size containers :P

BikerAggie wrote:When I first started brewing my buddy kegged in the mini kegs and I was bottling. We were both engineers so we ended up with 2 pages of calculations to get the priming ratio right for the two different size containers